We are now a one cat family. We had to have Bayonette put down last night. She had progressive cancer, and night before last, lost the use of her back legs. So, it was time. As sad as it all was, however, it was a vastly better experience than when Mulligan died, thanks to our wonderful vet. After the trauma of Mulligan's death, where he basically ( Read more... )

Aside from a lingering cough, I seem to be back in the land of the living. My doc, bless him, loaded me up with a grab-bag of drugs before I left work Friday afternoon, telling me to take whatever combination I thought would help. There are some bennies to being in the health care field, I tell you. I've mostly been doing fine with a combination of ( Read more... )

in front of a three day weekend. Yuck. But, on the bright side, Keith fixed me a very robust Kentucky Mule. I may be cured. Or, if not cured, then I don't care all that much. I think I'll go to bed now.

Urggh. Of course we do. Tory, that is. Sometimes I just have to keep saying that to myself, though. So, she desperately wanted a video camera that recorded on dvd for Christmas. So, we got her one. $500 worth of one. She talked about taking it to school. We expressly forbid taking it to school. She took it to school anyway, and, BIG surprise, it ( Read more... )

Keith got us Apples to Apples for Christmas, and we finally broke it out and played it yesterday. We're a game playin' kind of family, and had seen in game stores before, and now I really wish we had bought it many moons ago, as it is too much fun. Way simple, but hilarious. At one point, EJ chose the word "chains" to match "sexy". She's never ( Read more... )

Is what I'm enjoying now. Keith is at the Bucs/Redskins game (go Bucs!), Austin in working, and the girls are out god knows where. Well, I'm reasonably sure they're in the neighborhood, somewhere. I hope Keith is having a good time. He's been stressed recently, and needs to relax. While retiring is definitely the right step, he's not had to worry ( Read more... )

Well, not really hooky, more an approved day of leave, but it was last minute, so it feels like hooky! My brother and SIL were in town last night and today, and I got today off so we could spend some time with them. I also let the girls stay home from school, which they were a-okay with. Didn't do anything terribly exciting, watched football and ( Read more... )

So, work was very interesting. Without violating HIPPA, suffice it to say that my job can be a rather unique perspective into the fact that very powerful people have more or less the same issues the rest of us do ( Read more... )

As some of you may remember, my beloved kitty Mulligan died of kidney cancer last spring. Alas, it seems we get to deal with more kitty cancer. Our little gray tabby, Bayonette (paranthetical aside: when I rescued her from the parking lot, and was convincing Keith to keep her, he agreed on one condition: that he get to name her. So, he named her ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Did you miss me? Yeah, I know, was I gone? Well, I was, through a combination of computer issues, busyness and general inertia, but I figured the start of a new year was a good time to resume doing things I'd enjoyed that had fallen by the wayside, one of those things being keeping this journal ( Read more... )